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Release Date:
23 January 2009 (USA) moreTagline:
400 million people were waiting for the truth. morePlot:
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 36 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(77 articles)
Howard To Receive Top Filmmaking Honour (From WENN. 15 July 2009, 1:01 AM, PDT)
Moore Pulls Out Of Clinton Role
(From WENN. 9 July 2009, 5:11 AM, PDT)
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An extraordinary film more (197 total)US TV Schedule:
| Wed. Nov. 11 | 12:45 PM | MAX | |||
| Wed. Nov. 11 | 10:00 PM | MAX | more |
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Frank Langella | ... | Richard Nixon | |
| Michael Sheen | ... | David Frost | |
| Sam Rockwell | ... | James Reston, Jr. | |
| Kevin Bacon | ... | Jack Brennan | |
| Matthew Macfadyen | ... | John Birt | |
| Oliver Platt | ... | Bob Zelnick | |
| Rebecca Hall | ... | Caroline Cushing | |
| Toby Jones | ... | Swifty Lazar | |
| Andy Milder | ... | Frank Gannon | |
| Kate Jennings Grant | ... | Diane Sawyer | |
| Gabriel Jarret | ... | Ken Khachigian | |
| Jim Meskimen | ... | Ray Price | |
| Patty McCormack | ... | Pat Nixon | |
| Geoffrey Blake | ... | Interview Director | |
| Clint Howard | ... | Lloyd Davis |
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Rated R for some language.Parents Guide:
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122 minLanguage:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
USA:R (certificate #44159) | UK:15 | Australia:M | Ireland:PG | Finland:K-11 | Norway:11 | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:12 | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Czech Republic:15 | Germany:6 | New Zealand:M | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Portugal:M/12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Sweden:7 | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:Atp | Brazil:12 | Denmark:11 | Austria:6 | France:U | Iceland:12 (theatrical rating) | Iceland:7 (video rating) | Singapore:M18 (DVD rating) | Peru:PTFun Stuff
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Frank Langella won a Tony Award in 2007 for playing Richard Nixon in the original stage production. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: In the end credits, the name of the author of the classic novel "Middlemarch", George Eliot, is misspelled as "George Elliot". moreQuotes:
James Reston, Jr.: You have to set up that he has an anti-democratic personality. There's a reason they call him Tricky Dick. moreSoundtrack:
I Feel Love moreFAQ
A Note Regarding SpoilersIs "Frost/Nixon" based on a book?
Who is playing Nixon?
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Frank Langella's performance as Nixon is truly moving in this remarkable film by Ron Howard, which gripped me for its entirety. As someone who grew up during the Watergate hearings, and who reviled Nixon as the embodiment not just of corruption but of the worst kind of interventionist, even genocidal, American politics, this film gives substance to a man who, in later years (especially the GW Bush years, which make Nixon look like a political and intellectual colossus), achieved something of a place in history beyond the scandal of Watergate.
But what Frost/Nixon - and in particular Langella - does is give humanity to the man. We see his arrogance, his love of power, his need to win (hinted at wonderfully in a moment when he is jogging in his San Clemente home to rousing music), but we also see his inner conflicts, his regrets, the fact that perhaps more than simply his crimes regarding Watergate haunted him - that the impact of his decisions on South East Asia were not entirely remote from him, either. And in a sequence that I will not reveal, to avoid spoiling the plot, we also see a hint of his madness, for it is that, I think, rather than senility. (You have to see it to understand this.)
Ron Howard and playwright/screenwriter Peter Morgan have achieved a remarkable feat in adapting the stage play, which sadly I did not see. Not for a moment does this feel stage bound; instead it is a compelling human portrait of two men - for Frost is fascinating, too, and Michael Sheen captures both his much criticized (at the time) surface gloss and also his deeper fears - but above all of the impact that each of our decisions, large and small, and not least if you are leader of the "Free World," have on us all.